AllPoints Church began as a new church start serving the tri-county area of North Cobb, Cherokee, and North Fulton the first weekend of Lent 2004. In that beginning phase, our original mission and vision statements were:

VISION STATEMENT:

To be the community of faith that
makes a difference in the world...
makes a difference in the lives of others...
makes a difference in you...
makes a difference for all eternity...
as we creatively learn together to seek, find, know, and serve Jesus in all we do.

Jesus said of his mission to us, For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.

His mission continues. It includes you, and it includes me. His mission is the greatest adventure you can take. Come. Journey with us. Find Jesus in places you never thought to look. And along the way, find your true self.

OUR MISSION:
Our mission is simple, and our name says it all. We look to make a difference at all points:
In your life as a new man or woman, boy or girl, as a student (disciple) of Jesus Christ...
In our community as we show the love of Christ to all we meet...
In the world, as we go and make disciples (students) of all people and, along the way, reach out to serve even the least of these among us.

If you are looking to find a place to settle in and collect dust on the pew or chair, well, we are not your place. But if you are looking to engage eternity, to make a difference, to be a part of something dynamic and life-giving, we might be just the thing you are looking for!

NEW WINE IN NEW WINESKINS
Many people – up to 60% or more in a typical neighborhood (and up to 90% in our tri-county region!) according to different surveys – have no idea about what goes on inside of a church. Many were simply raised without God or the church being a meaningful part of their lives. Others have tried the church, and not gotten past its human failings. Others have been hurt by the church or by oppressive doctrines and dogmas kept for the sake of keeping rules and little else. But many, if most, simply do not know anything about the Good News. AllPoints Community Church is a place where the love of God is shown first and last in all things. Her minister knows most of the reasons folk dont want to be associated with a church because he lived them all himself for the better part of two decades. He has learned that God in Jesus Christ is real, and ready, and waiting, and that Jesus not only knows you by name, but that He has been calling you by name. Jesus calls everyone into community with Him and with other Christians. He is calling you to be a new person, a new creation. Perhaps, just perhaps, He is calling you to be a part of this New Thing called AllPoints.

Jim Anderson, HNI’s Presiding Overseer, once said, Vision is like wine. With every generation it is different. Every generation needs new vision and new wineskins to hold the anointing of God. Jesus said, You cannot put new wine in old wineskins. The reason is simple. As the new wine ferments and expands, it will split an old skin that had previously been stretched to its limit when, new itself, it held new wine. AllPoints Community Church is a new vision, a new wine. Together, we will be the new wineskin to hold this new thing Jesus is calling AllPoints to be and become. Come on, join in with us! Its worth the stretch!

That’s what we focused on in our first 18 months, and God took that time to weave our core group together.

We moved to our present location in Hickory Flat between Canton and Woodstock in August of 2005. That fall, we met each Wednesday in October, November, and the first part of December to revisit what God was saying our Vision and Mission should be.

We would typically break into 4 or 5 groups of 4, and go off into different parts of the building to seek God’s face. We would then have a scribe in each group record what the members felt God was telling them or showing them during the prayer time. Then we would get back together and hear the reports of the scribes.

The first night, seeking what we needed to be about, the first two things out of each group were the same. The way God might have revealed his mind varied a bit from group to group, but the message was the same.

We are to be a church that shows the heart of the Father to everyone we encounter.

And, we were to be a healing church.

Over the next couple of months, we prayed about what those things would look like. Over and over, we were shown we needed to be a church that welcomed everyone who came through the doors as if escorted by Christ himself, that we were to accept people where they were at the time—baggage and all—and that we were to love them unconditionally.

And so our vision statement was born: Taking the love of Christ to all points.

Our mission is to take that love in whatever form it needs to present itself into the world. To that end we have helped families on hard times have a better Christmas, single moms with kids make up back rents and mortgages, and kept food on tables in struggling households. We have come alongside Gulf Coast hurricane victims, and helped build churches and outreach centers in Mexico. We help support a missionary in Central Asia, a missionary family in Communist China and support local ministries like SERV Ministries and MUST Cherokee. We are always looking for ways to take the love of God to all points. And we can use all the help we can get, so come on out, roll up your sleeves, and pitch in! The world is a hurting and hurtful place that needs all the love and grace we can bring to bear in the name of Jesus of Nazareth!

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